Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-21


Cody, walked in and sat down. and while
in conversation, the doctor discovered
my long hair, which was tucked up un>
der my bat. He knew what / was after
in q moment, and without stopping to
discuss matters, drove sixty miles that
night to telegraph station to advise
Commissioner Price that WAS there at,
tempting to steal Indians. and asking for
orders to have me put off the territory.
In the meantime. however, got my In
dams, but the doctor never forgave me
while | was about there He was pecu-
liar about such matters. But as l said
before, he came around here to the camp
the other day and we smoked the pipe of
peace"
Were you born on the frontier put
in the reporter
mo. l was born in Pennsylvania in
1857, going among the Pawnees when my
father took charge of the agency when
was but nine years OF age, | was brought
up among them, and became to know
their ways better than my own people. |
speak their language almost as well as |
do my own, and am as familiar with their
modes of life as am with the white peo>
pie. After seven years upon the stage,
travelling about the country with the
great guide and actor whom everybody
knows-W. F. Cody, or as he is famil>
iarly known TO us on the plains, Buffalo
Bill was engaged by this company
and have been with it several years. l
ENJOY it very much, too, for it affords op.
portunity to keep about me the scenes of
my past life, and retain in certain
way my professional career as an actor. y
THE object and aim of these enter
tainments which we are giving here is
not to sell our medicine now, but simply to
introduce it; 10 advertise it, and We have
chosen this way of accomplishing this
end. We want to get our medicine into
market; We have placed it in the hands
of all your leading druggists, and this is
the way We have selected of letting the
public know that it is there Once in,
troduced, we know by experience, that
our Indian medicines will take care OF
themselves.
The Indian herbs we are advertiser G
are converted into medicines by a com.
pany at New Haven, Conn, by whom
am employed. We have fifty>fve camps
| on the Toad-such as tbis-which is
| number one. We advertise five differ
emit kinds of Indian medicines. all OF
which spring from the same Indian herb
They are Kickapoo Indian Sagwa. Kick
apoo Indian oil, Kickapoo worm killer
Kickapoo salve and Kickapoo Indian
cough cure. 1t is all these varieties OF
Indian medicine that am advertising
| Our wish is to let the public know thai
our medicine is in the city-that it may
be had at any drug store. We are Civ
ing the druggists sort of benefit, as il
were"
lis there not good deal of expense
entailed in your mode of advertisingf"
Certainly there is. but it costs money
to advertise in any wsv. You can't have
it without paying for it, but advertising
is thing that any branch of business
mus: indulge in to u greater or less de-
gree in order to succeed. In addition to
our free entertainment, we do an i'm
mense amount of newspaper and other
printed advertising. See here. too, thu
variety of fancy advertising we do. Their
is lithograph work in those little book
which we get out for gratuitous distribu'
ton, such as you cannot buy 10 child,
book for half a dollar, yet we get then
out and scatter them among our friends
These books, while serving to adyertiss
| our Kickapoo medicine. will also prove
instructive, as showing the differen
modes of Indian life and warfare.
Now have said nothing Of our en-
tertainmen', which we give here FIRE
every night. We have engaged and re
tain on good salaries William Harvey
comedian, W. 7. Ament. musical arts
and Vim. Gilmore and J. K. Moore
speciality people. In addition to the per
Torrance which these people give night
we introduce, as you know, GU
genuine Pawnee Indians 10 their ma
tive state. We have from this tribe. K
Wauck. 90 Toose. Sioux Killer, Ar Roos
90 Saderhaw. Ia Kars and Spotte
i Horse"
81 have an assortment of interesting re
les here in my tent, among others sirin
Of bears claws once worn by the Chi,
of the Pawnee tribe, and other curiositit
which | take pleasure in exhibiting"
"How much longer will you be in Roc
Islandr
That ] don't exactly khow. / shs